Beauty and Elegance in Physics, featuring Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- The 2009 Harry Mullin, M.D., Memorial Lecture featured Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D., winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics. The lecture, held on Oct. 15 in the Houlihan-McLean Center, was filmed by PBS affiliate station WVIA-TV. Dr. Gell-Mann presented his overall theme of "Why is beauty or elegance a successful criterion for choosing a fundamental physical theory?"
Rest in peace.....to a genius who engaged the public with these lectures and touched an ignorant person like myself.
it is a little silly adding PhD after such an incredible scientist's name.
This is the first video I have watched with Murray Gell-Mann (I had only read about him), and I am in awe of the knowledge of the man. I find his explanation of the idea of "emergence" beautiful! I find this lecture beautiful!
51:13, And he has a sense of humour! - "I set up a nature reserve for endangered string theorists."
56:30, "As to religion..." I think we shouldn't talk about religion - the set of ancient ideas - it doesn't change, in the case of Christianity for ex. the bible doesn't change. We should talk about theologians, and priests - they are the ones who interpret the bible. They are clever, they know that they cannot afford to fight science, so to keep their profession existing, they have to accept the scientific discoveries and twist and adapt the beliefs they propound to them.
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***** Yeah, he's great. I've been meaning to upload a video on the Consistent Histories approach (Gell-Mann's favourite interpretation of quantum theory), about how it developed and Gell-Mann's contributions and so forth.
+dewinthemorning
I have a feeling that this part has been cut of the video, I can remember that, I came back to watch it again but it is not there anymore. What happened ?
+dewinthemorning Just stumbled upon this gentleman. Your review as well as this talk has pressed upon me to explore more of his writings and talks.
MGM wearing them shades indoors
Boss
This should have far more views!
He looks like a Bond villain sitting up there. All he needs is a white cat.
Does anyone know, why he wears sunglasses?
Why should the laws of nature be simple and beautiful? Why should it depend on our perception of simple or beautiful? Very deep questions.
Laws of nature are two fold. Laws of physics and laws of mathematics. Laws of physics can change with time and our knowledge, but laws/algorithm of mathematics are 'a priori' and independent of our knowledge and is the ultimate clue to understand the laws of physics. Mathematics of quantum computers(QC), reveal the various dimensions of reality and lead us to an understanding of how or why everything in the universe are fine tuned (FT) to perfection.
Our living self functions as a QC. We get 50-70 billion cells damaged daily which are repaired/regenerated with 99.99 % efficiency and at lightning speed, implying that life and the universe both function as QC (self-error correcting due to FT), implying man and god are entangled, implying that the quantum field can self-simulate intelligent conscious 'observer', collapsing the field into particles (matter). Resulting in our capability to comprehend what is incomprehensible.
Why the sun glasses? He once said R.P. Feynman was a bit full of himself and too concerned with expanding his own "quirkiness" that he could no longer work with him. Hypocrite. Does anyone agree with me? ... I still respect Mann's insights.
Great lecture. Terrible audience.
One of the very few english speakers, who pronounces correctly the surname of Einstein. First off, Albert Einstein's surname is pronounced with a "sh" sound , due to the second syllable of his surname beginning with "st" (literally, his name means "one stone"). The vowel grouping "ei" in German is pronounced similar to the English "eye", though with less emphasis on the first part of the diphthong. Another example of totaly wrong pronounciation is the surname of the famous German physicist Schwartzschild (literally, his name means "black shield"). Correct is: [ˈʃvaɐ̯tsʃɪlt]; but I hear ridiculous pronounciation schwartz - child. O sancta simplicitas!